I wasn't being a drama queen, insists alpine skier Vonn

2011-02-13T16:30:23Z

Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn insisted Sunday she was not being a 'drama queen' as she defended her criticism of the course here at the world ski championships.

Vonn lost her world downhill crown when she finished second down the Kandahar course behind Austria's

Austria's Goergl beats Vonn to claim downhill gold

2011-02-13T09:30:17Z

Austria's Elisabeth Goergl won the women's world downhill title on Sunday with Lindsey Vonn of the United States taking silver and Germany's Maria Riesch taking bronz...

Goergl stuns Vonn and Riesch again

2011-02-13T07:00:05Z

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Elisabeth Goergl stunned favorites Lindsey Vonn and Maria Riesch for the second time at the wor...

Vonn and Riesch downhill dominance could end

2011-02-12T18:30:06Z

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn and her great rival Maria Riesch have won the last 15 competitive downhill races between them but their dominance could end at the world championships on Sunda...

Vonn shocked by 'dangerous' course

2011-02-07T18:30:30Z

On the eve of the Alpine World Ski Championships, defending champion Lindsey Vonn said she was shocked at piste conditions ahead of Tuesday's opening race and has dubbed the Kandahar course 'dangerous'.

Vonn spoke out after training for the super-G event which opens the fortnight-long championships that run until February 20 as she looks to defend her super-G title and throw down...

Top skiers set for battle at Alpine world champs

2011-02-07T17:30:29Z

The world's top skiers are set to battle it out in the Bavarian Alps with the Alpine World Ski Championships taking place from February 8-20.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen hosts the 41st world championships which starts Tuesday with the women's super-G race when United States

Rebensburg hits form as worlds loom

2011-02-06T09:00:05Z

ZWIESEL, Germany (Reuters) - Olympic champion Viktoria Rebensburg won the last giant slalom race before the world championships on Sunday, boosting her medal ambitions for the Garmisch-Partenkirchen fortnight.

The 21-year-old German, skiing at ho...

Vonn posts 39th World Cup ski victory

2011-01-23T11:30:13Z

Lindsey Vonn won the women's World Cup super-G here on Sunday for her 39th career victory, the American Olympic champion adding this to her win at the Italian resort on Friday and maintained her proud record of a podium placing in the discipline for the past two years.

Germany's

Vonn beats Riesch to win Cortina super-G

2011-01-23T05:00:09Z

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn made up for her disappointing result in Saturday's downhill when she crowned a weekend of speed events with a second super-G victory on Sunday.

The Americ...

France's Worley continues giant slalom streak

2010-12-28T13:30:41Z

France's Tessa Worley won the women's World Cup giant slalom race here on Tuesday ahead of German duo Maria Riesch and Kathrin Hoelzl.

It was the 21-year-old Worley's third successive victory in the discipline after previous wins in Aspen and

Vonn wins World Cup downhill in France

2010-12-18T06:30:07Z

Lindsey Vonn wins World Cup downhill race at Val d'Isere, closes gap on Maria Riesch

American skier Lindsey Vonn won her first downhill race of the season Saturday to close the gap on overall World Cup leader Maria Riesch.

The three-time defending World Cup and reigning Olympic down...

Lindsey Vonn wins women's WCup downhill race

2010-12-18T04:00:09Z

Lindsey Vonn wins women's World Cup downhill race at Val d'Isere, closes gap on Maria Riesch

American skier Lindsey Vonn won her first downhill race of the season at Val d'Isere on Saturday to close the gap on overall World Cup leader M...

Vonn, Riesch rivalry heats up at Lake Louise

2010-12-06T14:30:42Z

Lindsey Vonn is by no means ready to surrender her title as the queen of Alpine skiing but her self-described "love affair" with Lake Louise was certainly put to the test.

Three-time World Cup overall champion Vonn stormed back from a pair of disappointing runner-up downhill finishes to Maria Riesch to pos...

Riesch takes the lead after 1st run; Vonn in 6th

2010-11-13T04:00:11Z

Maria Riesch takes the lead after 1st run of season-opening World Cup slalom; Vonn in 6th

Maria Riesch of Germany took the lead after the first run Saturday of the World Cup slalom race on the Levi Black course in Finland.

The O...

Alpine skiing: Top international contenders

2010-11-29T15:53:54Z

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Vonn leads US charge as Alpine skiing season opens

2010-10-22T01:30:49Z

Vonn will be one of four American racers who won Olympic golds at the 2010 Vancouver Games turning out for a season bissected by the February 8-20 World Ski Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

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Vonn leads US charge

2010-10-21T09:30:56Z

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Three down, three to go for US star Vonn

2010-03-12T10:16:52Z

After winning her third straight World Cup title on Friday, US star Lindsey Vonn said she is a long way from matching the record six won by Austria's Annemarie Moser-Proell.

Having won downhill gold and Super-G bronze at last month's Winter Olympics, Vonn won the Super-G race here on Friday to be crowned the overall World Cu...

Vonn wins third successive World Cup

2010-03-12T05:00:08Z

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn of the United States skied through more pain on Friday to win the women's overall World Cup title for the third year running.

Vonn ignored a bruised right knee after crashing in Thursday's giant slalom t...

Vonn title bid hit by crash

2010-06-12T09:35:55Z

GARMISCH-PARTERNKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn's bid for a third successive overall World Cup title was hit when she crashed out of the giant slalom on Thursday and Maria Riesch kept her outside ho...

Vonn crashes out of giant slalom

2010-03-11T02:00:09Z

GARMISCH-PARTERNKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn, on the brink of clinching her third successive overall World Cup title, crashed in the first leg of the season's final giant slalom on Thursday.

The American Olympic downhill champion spun off about a quarter of the way down the Vonn nears 3rd straight overall World Cup title after finishing 2nd to Riesch in downhill

With the arithmetic clearly in her favor, Lindsey Vonn is closing in on a third straight overall World Cup title after finishing second to Maria Riesch on Wednesday in the season's final downhill.

Three races remain and Vonn holds a commanding 225-point lead o...

Riesch leaves Vonn trailing in World Cup downhill ski win

2010-03-10T05:16:26Z

Germany's Maria Riesch romped to victory in the women's World Cup finals downhill race here on Wednesday leaving Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn of the United States in her wake.

US starlet Vonn, who has a commanding overall World Cup lead and has already claimed the seas...

Grugger, Suter set the early pace

2010-03-09T11:19:23Z

Austria's Hans Grugger and Switzerland's Fabienne Suter set the early pace in the men's and women's downhill training on Tuesday ahead of the World Cup finale.

American ski queen Lindsey Vonn and Switzerland's

Vonn secures downhill World Cup title

2010-06-30T15:13:47Z

CRANS MONTANA, Switzerland (Reuters) - American Lindsey Vonn added the downhill World Cup title to her Olympic gold when she won Saturday's speed event in C...

Canada, USA in dream ice hockey Olympic final

2010-06-12T14:45:16Z

Canada sneaked past Slovakia while the United States crushed Finland to set up a blockbuster Olympic ice-hockey final as the host nation surged to the top of the medal table with two more gold.

With just two more days left, the Canadians have 10 gold medals, one clear of

US into Olympic ice hockey final as Riesch wins gold

2010-06-12T14:45:11Z

The United States swept past Finland and into the men's ice hockey final where Canada or Slovakia await them, as Maria Riesch grabbed gold in the last women's alpine event of the United States swept past Finland and into the men's ice hockey final on Friday where Canada or Slovakia await them, as Maria Riesch grabbed gold in the last women's alpine event of the Lindsey Vonn was quick to applaud the double gold feat of close friend Maria Riesch after the German added the Olympic slalom title to her super-combined crown Friday.

Vonn, who won the downhill gold and super-G bronze, crashed out of the giant slalom and slalom to end any hope she had of adding to her collection.

"It's awesome. I'm so happy for...

Maria Riesch wins gold in Olympic slalom

2010-06-12T08:26:48Z

Germany's Maria Riesch wins slalom for 2nd Olympic gold medal; Vonn skis out in 1st run

Maria Riesch of Germany won the slalom title for her second gold medal of the Winter Olympics on Friday, as Lindsey Vonn skied out chasing her second victory.

Riesch led after the first leg and had a combined two-run...

Riesch eyes Olympic slalom gold as Vonn bombs

2010-02-26T13:16:38Z

Germany's Maria Riesch is in prime position to add Olympic slalom gold to her super-combined title after heading the first leg on Friday which saw American star Lindsey Vonn crash out.

Riesch clocked 50.75 seconds, 0.40sec ahead of world slalom silver medallist Sarka Za...

Riesch eyes slalom gold as Vonn bombs

2010-02-26T13:16:40Z

Germany's Maria Riesch is in prime position to add Olympic slalom gold to her super-combined title after heading the first leg on Friday which saw American star Lindsey Vonn crash out.

Riesch clocked 50.75 seconds, 0.40sec ahead of world slalom silver medallist Sarka Za...

Goergl leads weather-hit giant slalom as Vonn bombs

2010-06-12T09:34:47Z

Austrian Elisabeth Goergl is in pole position in the women's Olympic giant slalom, but will have to wait until Thursday for a medal chance after dismal weather put paid to the second run.

Goergl clocked 1min 15.12sec on her first run down a course which again cost American speed queen Lindsey Vonn dearly before heavy snow gave way to thick fog that forced organise...

Goergl tops Olympic giant slalom as Vonn crashes out

2010-06-12T09:34:39Z

Austrian Elisabeth Goergl topped the first leg of the women's Olympic giant slalom on Wednesday after disaster struck for American speed queen Lindsey Vonn.

Vonn, who has won downhill gold and super-G bronze here, led the field at the third intermediary time by a massive 0.35 seconds, but misjudged a gate, lost her balance and bucked nastily off course.

Para...

Goergl tops giant slalom as Vonn crashes out

2010-06-12T09:34:38Z

Austrian Elisabeth Goergl topped the first leg of the women's Olympic giant slalom on Wednesday after disaster struck for American speed queen Lindsey Vonn.

Vonn, who has won downhill gold and super-G bronze here, led the field at the third intermediary time by a massive 0.35 seconds, but misjudged a gate, lost her balance and bucked nastily off course.

Para...

Vonn fails to finish race; Mancuso wins 2nd silver

2010-04-16T07:04:14Z

'Julia! Julia!': Mancuso's 2nd silver steals some thunder from Vonn, who fails to finish

Lindsey Vonn stepped gingerly in her brown hiking boots, a grimace betraying the pain in her bruised right shin and the sting of a fall that prevented her from completing Thursday's super-combined race at the Olympics.

As Vonn moved from the finish area toward a throng of autograph-seekers, a chant rang out from fan...

Vonn crashes, Riesch wins super-combined gold

2010-04-16T07:03:52Z

Maria Riesch of Germany produced a storming slalom performance to win the women's super-combined gold at the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Thursday.

American Julia Mancuso won the silver and Anja Paerso...

Vonn set for fightback in Olympic super-G

2010-04-16T07:03:37Z

After putting her injured shin through another alpine battle, American Lindsey Vonn knows it's time to rest up before she fights for more Olympic medals on Saturday.

Vonn claimed an historic women's downhill gold for the USA on Wednesday but despite leading the race for more gold in the super-combined a day later she crashed out of the event's deciding slalom.

The...

Olympic eyes on Vonn after Cortina double

2010-04-16T07:24:12Z

All eyes at next month's Winter Olympic Games will be firmly set on Lindsey Vonn after the American won her fifth successive World Cup downhill race here on Saturday.

It was the 25-year-old's second win in two days after she had claimed victory in the super-G on Saturday, and her eighth this season.

Vonn consolidated her lead atop the World Cup overall standings ahead of Germany<...

Olympic eyes on Vonn after downhill double

2010-04-16T07:24:36Z

All eyes at next month's Winter Olympic Games will be firmly set on Lindsey Vonn after the American won her fifth successive World Cup downhill race here on Saturday.

It was the 25-year-old's second win in two days after she had claimed victory in the super-G on Saturday, and her eighth this season.

Vonn consolidated her lead atop the World Cup overall standings ahead of Germany<...

Vonn makes it a perfect 5-for-5 in downhill

2010-04-16T07:24:33Z

Lindsey Vonn makes it a perfect 5-for-5 in downhill, ties Kostelic with 30th win overall

Lindsey Vonn made it a perfect five wins in five World Cup downhills this season with another decisive victory Saturday.

The American also tied Janica Kostelic with her 30th World Cup victory, go...

Schild wins Flachau slalom

2010-04-16T07:41:56Z

Marlies Schild of Austria won Tuesday's women's slalom on home snow at Flachau to pocket her 22nd World Cup career victory, seeing off Germany's Maria Riesch and Austria's Kathrin Zettel.

Schild made it 20 wins in the discipline and two for the season to date as she saw off Rie...

Vonn wins super-G for 3rd victory in as many days

2010-04-16T07:52:06Z

Lindsay Vonn becomes 1st American to win 3 races in 3 days with victory in super-G

As if anyone needed it, Lindsey Vonn offered more proof on Sunday that her bruised left arm is no longer an issue, at least in the speed events.

She captured her third straight World Cup race, winning a super-G to become the first American man or woman to earn a ...

Vonn in control with third straight downhill win

2010-04-16T07:48:39Z

Lindsey Vonn of the United States made it three in a row when she bounced back from a bone bruise to win the women's World Cup downhill race here on Friday.

The reigning world champion and two-time World Cup winner clocked 1min 38.84sec to finish 0.35sec ahead of United States made it three in a row when she won the women's World Cup downhill race here on Friday.

The reigning world champion and two-time World Cup winner clocked 1min 38.84sec to finish 0.35sec ahead of Swede Anja Parson, the 2007 world champion, and Fraenzi Aufdenblatten upset a host of race favourites to claim her maiden World Cup win as the Swiss women dominated the women's super-G on Sunday.

The 28-year-old Aufdenblatten, whose previous best finish was a third place at the Bad Kleinkirchheim downhill in 2006, led a Swiss 1-2 with compatriot Nadia Styger finishing ahead of

Vonn wins World Cup super-combined race

2010-04-16T08:17:54Z

American Lindsey Vonn claimed her 25th World Cup success in the super-combined race here on Friday ahead of German rival Maria Riesch and Austria's Elizabeth Goergl.

Vonn, the overall World Cup champion, had stormed down the downhill course in the first leg of the two-discipline event to leave her rivals with a mountain to cli...

Vonn crushes rivals in super-combined first leg

2010-06-12T13:20:32Z

American Lindsey Vonn took a giant step towards a three-race clean sweep after crushing her rivals in the downhill section of the women's World Cup super-combined Friday.

World Cup slalom queen Maria Riesch of Germany had produced a solid downhill performance on the O...

'Unbeatable' Vonn cruising, Canadians hurting

2010-06-12T13:20:40Z

American Lindsey Vonn appears set to stretch her impressive World Cup downhill victory streak further after dominating the field in training for the second consecutive day Thursday.

Vonn led Austrian Elisabeth Goergl by 0.22sec in the second of two downhill training runs for Saturday's race, which, for th...

American skier Vonn on a mission for Olympic glory

2010-04-16T08:35:16Z

Lindsey Vonn etched her name in the record books, winning both legs of a downhill doubleheader and taking silver in the super-G to become the most successful skier ever in the Canadian Rockies.

Vonn just missed out on a three-race sweep losing Sunday's race by the razor-thin margin of .03 hundredths of a second to Elisabeth Goergl in the first super-G of the

Vonn wins back-to-back downhill titles

2010-06-12T13:20:40Z

Reigning World Cup overall champion Lindsey Vonn of the United States continued her mastery in the Canadian Rockies by winning the second leg of a downhill double header on Saturday.

Vonn, who also won Friday's season-opening downhill, flashed across the finish line in one minute, 50.06 seconds to place ahead of the Germany'...

Riesch beats chief rival Vonn in Levi

2010-04-16T09:09:35Z

LEVI, Finland (Reuters) - Germany's Maria Riesch edged out arch-rival Lindsey Vonn to win the season's opening women's World Cup slalom in Levi on Saturday.

Vonn retains women's World Cup ski crown

2010-04-16T16:07:50Z

America's Lindsay Vonn on Wednesday retained the women's alpine skiing World Cup title at the season-ending finals in Are, Sweden.

Vonn wrapped up her season in some style as she won the downhill in 1min 42.49sec to edge out Maria Riesch of Germany and Lindsey Vonn clinches back-to-back women's World Cup overall titles

Lindsey Vonn captured the women's overall title for the second straight year by winning the last downhill of the season Wednesday at the World Cup finals.

The American completed the 1.6-mile Olympia course in 1 minute, 42.49 seconds after posting the fastest splits all the way down.

"I...

Riesch wins slalom, Vonn crashes out

2010-04-16T14:27:52Z

Maria Riesch skied a blistering second run to win a dramatic women's slalom here on Saturday and hand Germany its second gold of the World Ski Championships.

In an action-packed climax to the second run, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy looking on, Italian Manuela Moelgg and Maria Riesch skied a blistering second run to win a dramatic women's slalom here on Saturday and hand Germany its second gold of the World Ski Championships.

In an action-packed climax to the second run, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy looking on, Italian Manuela Moelgg and Maria Riesch handed Germany its second gold of the World Ski Championships when she won the women's slalom here on Saturday.

Riesch produced a storming second run to clock a combined total of 1min 51.80 to finish 0.77sec ahead of Czech Sarka Zahrobska, the defending champion, with

Ski racers a country mile removed from tourists

2010-04-16T14:48:07Z

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Every recreational skier has done it, whether on a piste or in front of a television: imagining themselves, depending on their era, "doing" a Franz Klammer or Hermann Maier or Ingemar Stenmark.

Inspired by incredible, ever-improving television coverage, many a one-week-a-year skier will hit the...

Vonn shows improved slalom no fluke

2010-10-22T09:45:12Z

Lindsey Vonn shows slalom results no fluke as she regains lead in overall World Cup standings

Lindsey Vonn moved back to the top of the World Cup standings on Sunday with a slalom performance that showed she has the all-around talent to become the first American woman to win back-to-back overall titles.

Only Germany's Germany's Maria Riesch speeds down the course during an alpine ski World Cup women's slalom race, in Semmering, Austria, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

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France Alpine Skiing World Cup

2010-12-18T06:31:20Z

Germany's Maria Riesch reacts after finishing 24th in an alpine ski World Cup women's downhill race, in Val d'Isere, France, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

Canada Womens World Cup Skiing Downhill

2010-12-03T18:01:14Z

Maria Riesch of Germany, races down the course on her way to winning the women's World Cup downhill ski race in Lake Louise, Alberta on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/The Ca...

Womens World Cup Skiing

2010-11-28T16:02:19Z

Germany's Maria Riesch celebrates on the podium after finishing second in the women's World Cup slalom ski race in Aspen, Colo., on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)

Finland Alpine Skiing World Cup

2010-11-13T07:01:33Z

Germany's Maria Riesch speeds down the course during the first run of an alpine ski, Women's World Cup Slalom, in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010. Riesch finished second in the overall race. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

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